“On the Border”

Today, on Capitol Hill, I had a chance to see an excerpt of that Chosun Ilbo documentary on human trafficking in North Korea. As my friend had said, it does indeed depict drug smuggling. One smuggler is actually interviewed on night vision, just as he emerges from the freezing Tumen River with a load of drugs he is smuggling into China. His source? His brother, a soldier, who is pilfering from a state pharmaceutical factory in Nampo. I wasn’t able to determine what kind of drug, but it was probably either meth or opium.

I’ve been promised a chance to see a longer piece, and begged (probably without success) for a teaser clip I can post here. You won’t want to miss this one.